Identifying Evil, Exploring the Male: Arthur Rimbaud against the Second Empire

Dr. Nicolas's work considers how religion, administration, and the military, formerly the pride of France, were gnawing away at nineteenth-century French society, and how Arthur Rimbaud rose up up strongly against corruption on many levels. Her work will show how his poetry explores love scenery and the insanity of war in order to denounce the total collapse of the French Second Empire. Through Nina's lover's country trip and Napoleon's still smoking battlefields, Rimbaud shows us how men and politics are wrong, and how the time for women and Republic has come. In English.